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  1. Re:This feature will be a non-starter for me on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Remove GPS antenna and cell modem SIM card. Yes, these would require some disassembly, but there will be step-by-step Youtube video how to do it in 2 weeks after it comes out.

  2. Re:Telenav is betting you won't mind much on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Telenav is betting you won't mind much

    I'll take that bet.

    Me too. Especially after insurance companies realize they can compel release of this data to dispute coverage or increase rates.

    For example: You go through drive-through every morning - you must be eating breakfast while driving to work. This leads to distracted driving. Congratulations! You win 20% higher premium.

  3. This feature will be a non-starter for me on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This in car advertising feature will be non-starer for me. I will avoid buying cars equipped with one, if all cars go this way I will pull the fuse on infotaiment system.

    One aspect people fail to consider is that if your car reports your location to advertisers, it also can be compelled to report your location to law enforcement, creditors, lawyers.

  4. Wait until everyone switches to electric cars, and some of these electric motors start to arcing with age.

  5. Re:10,000 days on Jeff Bezos Shares Video of 10,000-Year Clock Project (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Those looking for radioactive waste would likely measure radiation levels prior to spending considerable effort hacking at an armored door. Also there are easier way to get it, like from medical devices that are not generally stored behind armored doors.

  6. Re:10,000 days on Jeff Bezos Shares Video of 10,000-Year Clock Project (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    An armored door with radioactive waste signage should be sufficient to keep people out. No need to guard it.

  7. I actually tried to construct a Faraday cage out of kitchen use tinfoil. in my first attempt I used a metal lockbox lined with tin foil. It wouldn't completely block cell phone signal and it wouldn't completely prevent keyless entry car keys from operating from within lockbox. I eventually had it working, but it wasn't just one sheet of tinfoil.

    Try following - wrap your smartphone in tinfoil and call it.

  8. If the miner had its own tinfoil hat, there wouldn't have been any interference!

    Only if it was grounded.

  9. Windows Bonzi Buddy Edition on Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps On My PC Without Asking (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows Bonzi Buddy Edition, aka Win10, is a slow-moving corporate suicide by Microsoft.

  10. Re:Setting it down wrong on Apple's HomePod Speakers Leave White Marks on Wood (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    According TFA, they are not oiling their wood properly.

  11. Re:Well, there is a simple solution. on Even Apple and Google Engineers Can't Really Afford To Live Near Their Offices (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in a van, and I kept my job. Works for me!

    Is your job has "bear" as part of the title, and does your van has "Free Candy" written on its side?

  12. Re:https everywhere is about control on AMP For Email Is a Terrible Idea (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, today you can get your own SSL certificate from a few fly by night companies, bury Google and Apple effectively control who gets to publish valid SSL certificates and have demonstrated willingness to use that hammer.

    While I agreed with your other point, this is just not true. Google and other browser companies can only add and remove trusted Root CAs. This doesn't allow them to control over end-entities that get issues SSL certificates. Removing trust from a specific root is a nuclear option, that lacks any kind of finite control. If Google decided they don't like Org ABC, there is nothing they could do to prevent Org ABC from getting an SSL cert that would be trusted by Chrome.

  13. Re:As a gear head - this is nirvana on Porsche Is 3D Printing Hard-To-Find Parts For The 959 And Other Classics (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    And as soon as metal printing is affordable, intellectual property laws will become the bane of your existence.

    They will be as successful as *AA at stopping music torrents. So not at all.

  14. As a gear head - this is nirvana on Porsche Is 3D Printing Hard-To-Find Parts For The 959 And Other Classics (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    As a gear head, I can't wait until metal printing is affordable. Unobtanium parts are bane of my existence.

  15. Re:Oh please please please on 'Troll' Loses Cloudflare Lawsuit, Has Weaponized Patent Invalidated (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    To Whom It May Concern,

    Cease and deists, your actions are in violation of patent #23942, "Sensible Correspondence on the computer", that my firm owns. The royalties are 1 MILLION DOLLARS for each post you critical of patent system you make.

    Sincerely Yours,
    Patent Trolls

  16. Re:The Quest To Find the properly commented code on The Quest To Find the Longest-Serving Programmer (tnmoc.org) · · Score: 1

    Ignore comments. Comments lie. Code never lies.

    Are you familiar with The Underhanded C contest? Code does lie.

  17. Re:YouTube is currently better... on YouTube CEO: Facebook Should 'Get Back To Baby Pictures' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Facebook was made intentionally unusable on any level for someone not logged in into Facebook. YouTube works without logging in.

    As people abandoning FB, this closeness will accelerate the decline.

  18. Re:Thanks Computer Museum... on The Quest To Find the Longest-Serving Programmer (tnmoc.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please, these Cobol graybeards are mission-critical. Nobody else knows how the code works, or able to read it, and if something goes wrong the entire thing goes down.

  19. The Quest To Find the properly commented code on The Quest To Find the Longest-Serving Programmer (tnmoc.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Quest To Find the oldest properly commented code is still on-going. None were found so far.

  20. Re:Par For The ./ Course on Verizon is Locking Its Phones Down To Combat Theft (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We will finally know when true AI arrives when it is able to cancel Verison plan over the phone.

  21. Re:Yep on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When 1st amendment was written, private entities that could control so much of our communication did not exist, not even in concept. Government was called out because it was the only entity that could limit speech in a meaningful way. 1st amendment core intention isn't about Government actions, it is about limiting free speech.

  22. Verizon is Locking and Marking up phones on Verizon is Locking Its Phones Down To Combat Theft (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Verizon is locking up phones and applying 200% markup to combat pedophilia. Are you against this? If so, why do you hate children?

  23. Re:WTF is a snap app on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Could Come with Snap Apps Preinstalled (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    So they reinvented MSI installer, only on Linux?

  24. Re:I got zero day to sell on Meet the Tiny Startup That Sells IPhone and Android Zero Days To Governments (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that exploit doesn't work on this batch of terrorists. It would literally be like beating a dead horse.

    You are not holding it correctly.

  25. Re:More bubble wrap! on YouTube Kids App Still Showing Disturbing Videos (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    What does this have to do with child exploitation and bizarre, disturbing imagery?

    What does child exploitation has to do with this discussion?